| Description | This article describes how to troubleshoot the issue of registering collectors due to a Certificate Issue. |
| Scope | FortiSIEM v7.x+. |
| Solution |
This issue occurs when a collector fails to register to the supervisor with the output such as below:
From the backend phoenix.log in Collector:
# tail -f /opt/phoenix/log/phoenix.log
Example from Backend phoenix.log:
2024-05-10T15:59:58.106443+10:00 AZxxxxSiemCol-001 phMonitorAgent[3004]: [PH_HTTP_CLIENT_CURL_ERROR]:[eventSeverity]=PHL_ERROR,[procName]=phMonitorAgent,[fileName]=phHttpClient.cpp,[lineNumber]=971,[infoURL]=https://10.130.124.230:443/phoenix/rest/config/systemConfig,[phLogDetail]=curl error (60) Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates for method: GET
To resolve this issue: Set up a proper CA-signed certificate for Collector from the article below: Technical Note: [Accelops KB] How to set up a proper CA-signed certificate
After setting up the certificate, it is required to enable SSL verification by setting 'http_client_verify_peer=yes' in the /opt/phoenix/config/phoenix_config.txt of the Supervisor and Collector.
Use the curl command below using the supervisor's FQDN, it should return an output of 'SSL certificate verify ok':
# curl -vv https://<Supervisor-FQDN
The collector will have to be re-registered using the supervisor's FQDN for a successful registration such as below:
# phProvisionCollector --add <Org username> <Org user password> <Supervisor-FQDN> <Organization-name> <Collector-name>
OR
For deployments with default self signed TLS certificate and do not wish to install a public CA certificate, make sure that value of config 'http_client_verify_peer' is 'no' in /opt/phoenix/config/collector_config_template.txt file on supervisor and /opt/phoenix/config/phoenix_config.txt file on the collector.
Supervisor node:
# grep http_client_verify_peer /opt/phoenix/config/collector_config_template.txt
Collector node:
# grep http_client_verify_peer /opt/phoenix/config/phoenix_config.txt |
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